Articles: The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897-1908; "Divine is Doomed. AND SO ARE HIGH PRICES": The Hanging of Patsey Devine in Clinton, 1882; On Grant's Front Line: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry in...

Towanda, IL; Oral and written family and personal stories; Photographs; Family photographs

Photograph taken around 1898 of Madge Motes Sachs holding her violin. Miss Sachs was a lifelong Towanda resident. She was born in Oswego, Kansas on July 9, 1884 to Hanson P. and Jane Motes Sachs. She graduated from Towanda High School in 1898...

Niles Center Public School 1898 class photograph. There are three rows of students standing in front of the school. The teacher, Alma Klehm, is sittting in the second row , second from the left. The students are most likely in grades 3rd thorugh...

Niles Center Public School 1898 class photograph. There are three rows of students standing in front of the school. The teacher is standing in the second row at the far left. The students are most likely in grades kindergarten through 2nd grade.

This is a winter scene of the south side of Lockport St. looking SW. This section was burned in 1898. To the left may be seen a part of the bank vault. The following spring, the present Opera House was built by Col. Marks and was known at the time...